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The Tyrant's Last Dream
The installation has four central elements: a wind machine, an immense red flag, a small platform, which, when stood upon, initiates the wind machine, and two channels of video with audio that is distributed among four monitors. When activated by a…
The Time and Life of Donaldina Cameron
The Life and Times of Donaldina Cameron, a performance piece, grew out of two artists’ desire to deal with this historical controversy. As an art form, performance combines experience and ideas into enticing blends, in this case a narrative…
The Story of My Life
For three hours, noon to three, on a Wednesday, I walked uphill on a treadmill while telling the story of my life into an amplification system which slightly echoed the sound.
I wore a blue prom dress over my clothes, had dye on my teeth and wore a…
I wore a blue prom dress over my clothes, had dye on my teeth and wore a…
The Sound of Flight
I made my first drum brush drawings in 1972 and I continue to make these drawings, which are inspired by the automatic writing of the surrealist movement. The drawings are the result of rubbing and beating with steel wire drum brushes ( like jazz…
The Short Order Cook, Act V, Andy's Donut
As “The Waitress” I was a gregarious self and also an archetype. “Waitress” with a bouffant hairdo who wore a black and white nylon dress. As the “Short Order Cook” I also dressed and behaved appropriately.…
The Screaming Nun
I dressed as a nun, danced, screamed, and heard confessions at Embarcadero Plaza. (Montano 1981, pages unnumbered)
The Return of the Agrarian Society
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The Restoration of a Portion of the Black Wall, Ceiling, and Floor of the Main Gallery of the Museum of Conceptual Art
In 1975 I did a show called “Second Generation” with artists who had been students of the artists of my generation. One of the artists [Daryl Sapien] painted a large section of the back wall, ceiling, and floor white to set up a space for…
The Perfect Kiss
Byars' works find their source in philosophy and theology rather than visual perception. The artist and poet William Blake once stated, "The eye envies the mind." Byars empathizes with such sentiments. His calculated actions and images serve…
The Next Governor Lowell Darling: A Fund Raising One Thousand Dollar a Plate Dinner
Lowell Darling is the first performance artists ever to run for govorner of the state of California. In his honor, a fund-raising $1,000-a-plate-dinner was held at the Museum of Conceptual Art. Using a third hand and a pair of cotton lips, saving his…